On the Senate floor this morning, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) implied the explosion that killed seven Marines at an ammunitions depot in Hawthorne, Nevada was due to the "cutting back in training and maintenance" in the sequester.

HARRY REID: As I indicated, it was quite a big explosion. We'll follow this news very closely. I will do whatever I can going forward to support the United States military and the families of the fallen Marines.

Mr. President, it's very important we continue training our military, so important. But one of the things in sequester is we cut back in training and maintenance. That's the way sequester was written. Now, the bill that's on the floor, we hope to pass today helps that a little bit. At least in the next six months, it allows the military some degree of ability to move things around a little bit. Flexibility, we call it, and that's good. But we have to be very vigilant. This sequester should go away. We have cut already huge amounts of money in deficit reduction. It's just not appropriate, Mr. President, that our military can't train and do the maintenance necessary.

These men and women, our Marines were training there in Hawthorne. And with this sequester, it's going to cut back this stuff. I just hope everyone understands the sacrifices made by our military. They are significant, being away from home, away from families, away from their country.

No. So they covered it. Great. Now, go search this story on google news and see which are going with the "he implied it and it's disgraceful" garbage vs sites that are reporting sans spin or are covering other sites bitching.

See the difference? OP article is accusing him of it, MSNBC article is reporting that people are bitching about what he said, not that their bitching and moaning is accurate.

So he is exploiting the deaths of 7 Marines to pimp his sequester bit.

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All kinds of people vote. Not enough of those people think highly enough of Trump to make him President but all kinds of people vote.

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So, if they were polling better than Trump and the primary goal was to prevent Hillary from becoming POTUS, perhaps it would have been a better strategic decision to nominate someone who actually had a chance of beating her and preventing that than nominating Donald Trump.

[B]This sequester should go away. We have cut already huge amounts of money in deficit reduction.

you gotta be ****ing kidding me. It's one thing to say the sequester is a stupid-ass way to do deficit reduction, and it's another to say now might not be the time, due to double-dip concerns on a recession, but to say we've cut already huge amounts of money in deficit reduction is the stupid f'n thing I've ever seen.

That's like Antoine Walker leaving the blackjack tables to take a piss and saying he's cut huge amounts of gambling losses...

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you gotta be ****ing kidding me. It's one thing to say the sequester is a stupid-ass way to do deficit reduction, and it's another to say now might not be the time, due to double-dip concerns on a recession, but to say we've cut already huge amounts of money in deficit reduction is the stupid f'n thing I've ever seen.

That's like Antoine Walker leaving the blackjack tables to take a piss and saying he's cut huge amounts of gambling losses...

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Massachusetts lawmaker 'took pictures of his genitals and put them on a female coworker's computer'

A state representative in Massachussetts is being investigated after allegedly sending pictures of his genitals to a government computer.

The investigation is ongoing and the committee has not formally reprimanded the individual in charge, but it is being widely reported that Democratic State Representative John Fresolo is the one behind the scandal.

He allegedly sent 'lascivious photos of his privates' to a computer at the State House, and an aide complained to the Ethics Committee to start the investigation.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo has not confirmed any accusations in the case except that he did say there was 'sufficient cause' for an investigation.

'In order to protect the integrity of the Ethics Committee investigation, Speaker DeLeo will have no further comment on this matter,' spokesman Seth Gitell said.

Local blogs and radio hosts have taken the case further, saying that it was definitely Fresolo who sent the salacious pictures.

This is not his first scandal, as he has a history of violence towards his family members that has put him in trouble with social services.

In 2005 he reportedly physically abused his then-13-year-old daughter, and that came nearly a decade after he was arrested for beating his then-wife in 1996. She later dropped the charges.

Blogger Michele McPhee reports that he is now on paid administrative leave, which is allegedly angering his colleagues.

'It’s bad enough that he pulled an Anthony Weiner and had pictures of his penis on State House computers, but then he tried to get his per diem pumped up. No one puts in for 220 days of commuting and with his commute that’s a lot of money,' a state representative told her on the condition of anonymity.

Adding a dash of irony to the case, the accusations come on the same day that the state politicians underwent ethics training.

Why don't you climb back into whatever rathole you come out of during these brief spells in between being banned. Your posts add nothing to the board in terms of being interesting, informative or funny. In fact, you're like a plague of cockroaches -- every time you think you've exterminated the little vermin, you find they're back.

Nearly all of your posts, including this one (which has nothing to do with anything) reminds me of this.

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